Instagram Scam Suspect Arrested in Pozarevac
M. Dj. (1999) from Pozarevac is suspected of offering custom made clothing on Instagram, taking payment upfront, then deleting the account. The arrest was ordered by prosecutors.
Police in Pozarevac have arrested M. Dj. (1999), a woman from the city, on suspicion of committing fraud. The arrest followed an order from the Pozarevac Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office, and the case was announced by the Interior Ministry (MUP) in a statement issued on August 12, 2026.
The suspect is accused of collecting payments in advance, then taking down her offer from the platform once the money came in.
What was allegedly offered on the Instagram account
According to the ministry’s statement, she used an Instagram account to offer custom made clothing. Interested buyers, investigators suspect, were told to transfer a set amount upfront. She then deleted the account carrying that offer.
MUP says several people were misled this way and that the goal was “obtaining unlawful material gain.” The ministry has not disclosed how many victims there were or how much money was involved in total.
The statement lays out a clear sequence: an offer went up, payment came in, then the account was deleted. Delivery of any clothing is not mentioned.
Who handled the case
The arrest was carried out by officers from the Interior Ministry’s Criminal Police Directorate, its Service for Combating Crime, the Department for Combating Economic Crime, working together with police from the Pozarevac Police Department.
That means two levels of policing were involved: the Criminal Police Directorate unit that covers economic crime, and the local police department in Pozarevac, the area where the suspect lives.
The operation was carried out on the order of the Pozarevac Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office, the prosecution with territorial jurisdiction over the city.
What happens next
The suspect has been ordered held for up to 48 hours. Once that period expires, she will be brought before the competent prosecutor’s office along with a criminal complaint.
She is presumed innocent until a final verdict. Everything the ministry has released so far amounts to grounds for suspicion, not established fact.
Same goal, a different channel
MUP has repeatedly warned the public before about scams in which money is requested by phone, through a call or a text message, using a story designed to push the victim into a quick payment.
This case differs in its channel. The offer did not arrive by phone call. It sat publicly on a social media profile, complete with photos and a price, drawing interested buyers in on its own. A buyer in that situation does not feel the pressure that exists in a phone scam, since they choose the moment and reach out to the seller themselves.
A social media account can be deleted in seconds, and with it goes the correspondence, the price and the promised delivery date. That is why, in cases like this, a payment receipt is often the only trace left behind.
The ministry has not said over what period the payments were collected, or whether this was the only account the suspect used.
